The American Friends of English Heritage in conjunction with English Heritage are delighted to invite you to our next webinar taking place on Zoom on Thursday January 26th at 2pm EST.
Marble Hill, on the banks of the Thames in West London, was in created by Henrietta Howard; a remarkable woman who overcame personal adversity to become a prominent figure in Georgian court society and a visionary patron of the arts. The Palladian villa became a centre for Henrietta’s influential cultural, intellectual and political circle. Here she entertained friends on a scale which was said to rival the royal court.
Join Dr. Tessa Kilgarriff for this curated virtual tour of Marble Hill through the furniture, silver, porcelain and silk textiles that reveal Henrietta Howard’s passions and personality. Dr Tessa Kilgarriff is Curator of Collections and Interiors at English Heritage, where she researches and cares for the paintings, furniture and decorative arts collections across two eighteenth-century Palladian villas: Marble Hill and Chiswick House. Prior to working at English Heritage, she was Assistant Curator at Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village. Tessa is a specialist in British art and completed her PhD at the University of Bristol in 2019.
